Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - 2008 - Volume 31, Issue 04  

Open Peer Commentary

Child versus adult analogy: The role of systematicity and abstraction in analogy models

Angela Schweringa1 and Kai-Uwe Kühnbergera1

a1 Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, D-49076 Osnabrück, Germany. aschweri@uni-osnabrueck.de http://www.cogsci.uni-osnabrueck.de/~aschweri/ kkuehnbe@uni-osnabrueck.de http://www.cogsci.uni-osnabrueck.de/~kkuehnbe/

Abstract

The target article develops a computational connectionist model for analogy-making from a developmental perspective and evaluates this model using simple analogies. Our commentary critically reviews the advantages and limits of this approach, in particular with respect to its expressive power, its capability to generalize across analogous structure and analyze systematicity in analogies.

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